If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.

Lord, You made us and gave us breath. May we do justice, love and mercy, and walk honorably before you this day. By the precious name of Jesus, I ask for your help to do this. Amen.

We're shadows! of naught - living, dying! for what's not.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

You wouldn't get rid of the Mona Lisa just because someone painted another picture of a woman smiling.

Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.

Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

I've always thought my flowers had souls.

Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.

I'm my own psychologist.